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There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
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Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
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I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
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That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
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Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?
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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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Ask the next question.
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There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.
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For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
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There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
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